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Katrina not just another story for Gulf Coast journalists.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 26-SEP-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Katrina not just another story for Gulf Coast journalists.(Hurricane Katrina, damage, media coverage)

Article Excerpt
Reporters dream about covering that really big story. And there can be no doubt that when it comes to big stories, Hurricane Katrina just may be the story of a lifetime for many journalists.

But especially for reporters on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, this big story is more nightmare than dream. Like everyone else on the Gulf Coast, where it is estimated that only one in ten homes escaped any damage from Hurricane Katrina, many reporters had flooding and/or lost their homes and automobiles.

Normally getting a ride in a helicopter as part of a story assignment would be considered a nice perk. But it didn't work that way for the political editor of The Sun Herald, Geoff Pender, when he took a helicopter ride to survey damage after Katrina.

Words fail

"I've flown in a helicopter from state line to state line, and those images will haunt me for...

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